14.12.2008

To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. - Isaac Asimov

Fear is the parent of cruelty. - James Anthony Froude

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. - Thomas Hardy

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. - Frank Herbert

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous. - Aldous Huxley

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. - Marquis de Sade

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. - George Bernard Shaw

Farewell, fair cruelty. - William Shakespeare